Completed just three weeks after British sentries killed five colonists and wounded six others, Paul Revere's engraving shaped the popular image of the Boston Massacre.

Exploration 1: Compare Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre with the following two accounts

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• Account 1: Captain Thomas Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre
  (13 march 1770):
• Account 2: A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston

Exploration 2: Compare Revere's engraving with two others images. Which is the most accurate?

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• Image 1: Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770.
• Image 2: The Boston Massacre, engraving based on a painting by Alonzo Chappel, 1868